Harold Corwin

IC 2949 may be the double star that I've put into the position table. It is fairly close to Finlay's crude position (from setting circles), and is bright enough that he could have seen it in the 6- and 7-inch refractors that he was using in the 1880's. Unfortunately, Finlay has left us no description of the object he found. I think, though, that the double would be a decent candidate for the sort of optics Finlay was using.

I do not think that the much fainter galaxy (ESO 266-G016) seven arcmin to the south, chosen by Andris and Wolfgang as IC 2949, could have been seen in Finlay's relatively small telescopes. In addition, it has a brighter star superposed that would probably help to hide the galaxy were it a marginal object.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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